Francesca Forrest has published a handful of short stories, including "The Yew's Embrace" and "Cory's Father" (Strange Horizons, 2011 and 2010), "The Gallows Maiden (inStereoOpticon: Fairy Tales in Split Vision, Drollerie Press, 2009), and "The Biwa and the Water Koto" (in Lace and Blade 2, Norilana Press, 2009). Her published poems include "Songs Were Washing Up," (Scheherezade's Bequest, 2008), which was a Rhysling nominee in 2009, and "The Qin Golem," (Not One of Us, 2009), which was a Rhysling nominee in 2010.

She lives in western Massachusetts with her husband and varying numbers of her four children, plus a dog and guinea pigs.